ColorCorrect Library for configuring color correction by compositors
The new Night Color module for KWin is designed in a way to be fully
configurable (while safe checking values) via DBus. Also it is supposed to
get updated location data from workspace. To ease the configuration and
provide the updated location data this library is introduced.
- Abstracts away the DBus part and provides a generic adaptor to the compositor as QML object for that.
- Allows to stage values and send them at once as needed for KWin's atomic config changes.
- Informs about configuration changes.
- Provides also QML objects for other often used functionality in this context (sun calculator and a locator, i.e. an encapsulated connection to the location data service).
- For automatic location updates the library provides a KDE Daemon Module, which gets the current location via such a locator object and sends it to KWin.
- The library is named and structured in a way, such that it later can be extended with functionality to configure gamma values in general (normal color correction), i.e. as soon as the support for that has landed in KWin.
In theory the library could be used with other compositors as well, if they
use a somewhat similar mechanism as KWin. In this case though the
CompositorAdaptor class would need to be rewritten in parts, probably
subclassed.
Test plan:
Manually and auto tests.
Reviewers: Plasma, davidedmundson
Reviewed By: Plasma, davidedmundson
Subscribers: plasma-devel
Tags: Plasma
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D5931